Palliative care
The Consultant-led Hospital Specialist Palliative Care Team
provides an advisory and supportive service whilst the medical and
nursing management of the patient remains the responsibility of the
ward team. Access to the Specialist Palliative Care service is on
the basis of need not diagnosis. It is available not exclusively
for patients with cancer but also to those with life-limiting
non-malignant diseases.
The Consultant-led Specialist Palliative Care Team
provides an advisory and supportive service
- Outpatient clinic and home visits are designed to facilitate
the transfer of the patient from the curative to the palliative
approach of their incurable illness
- Specialist palliative care beds are located at the Hospice of
the Good Shepherd in Backford
- Participates in Cancer Network Programmes / Meetings
- Strong links with the Hospice of the Good Shepherd